15.Jul.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Movie player AMP (Beta)
"AmiDog" released a first beta version of his movie player for AmigaOS 4. According to the author, it's a "a quick and dirty port of the latest beta containing a lot of untested stuff".
Direct download: AMP2-BETA-040705.lha (899 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Jul.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Status Update from Ben Hermans
An amigaworld.net member has released a transcript of Ben Hermans' speech at 'Amiga Alpe Adria' (3rd of July, Udine/Italy). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Jul.2004
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)
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BSD: DragonFly 1.0 Released
FreeBSD branch DragonFly was released at version 1.0 this week. The beginner of the project is Matthew Dillon, an Amiga user known for DICE C Compiler among other software. You may find out more about this Unix derivative at Heise. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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German Translation of DiscreetFX Interview
On amigaworld.org a short time ago there was an English-language interview with DiscreetFX (responsible for Amizilla and so on).
As of today there is a German-language version of the interview at the Amiga Future Homepage.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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14.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.3
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe". Other than with the original game several extensions and new features were added, e.g. many functions of the famous TTD patch were integrated directly.
The most important change compared to the official 0.3.2.1 release for MorphOS is surely working network support.
Interesting changes at a glance:
- network support for MorphOS
- improved German town name generator
- transparent station signs
- show total cargo per wagon type in train details window
- bridges on slopes
- Galician translation
- Extra dynamite, allow the removal of town-owned roads, bridges, tunnels for a popularity rating penalty
- magic bulldozer cheat, that lets you remove industries, unmovables and town-owned buildings, roads and bridges
- Enabled 'remove' button for stations
- Cheat GUI (activate with crtl-alt-c) The game remembers if you have used a cheat
- split canal/lock tool in two tools, one for building canals, one for locks.
- make the HQ generate passengers and mail
- made helicopters able to land on small airports again
- display number of houses in town overview window
- realistic train reversing
- added water quantity level "very low", which is the default for easy mode now
- various small improvement for the MorphOS build
- alt + f now toggles full screen (alt + enter still works)
- autorenew: autorenews vehicles if enabled.
- news history window
- larger smallmap size
- Austrian Citynames
- Polish translation
- Danish translation
- smooth economy changes
- TTDPatch-style gotodepot.
- helicopters get serviced automatically on helipad
- center toolbar on screen
- two new airports
- Resizing the window in all SDL builds
A complete list of all changes is to obtain from the changelog.
The archive is downloadable by the title link. Additional some selected files from the original game (Windows version) are required. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat version 1.2 released
The IRC client WookieChat is available as version 1.2 (353 KB) now. The enforcer hits are not solved yet but the author wanted to release the current state before he will go on vacations. If there are problems with the new version there is still the version V1.1 available for download.
Changes with V1.2:
- Installation script added
- "Perform on connect" support added. So you can join channels, register with nickserv, etc, automatically when you connect to a server. Edit the Group entry to change your connect script.
- Support added for server passwords
- No longer crashes when you are missing any of the three MUI custom classes that WookieChat requires. It will give an error message instead.
- You can now /part channels and close private message (query windows) tabs by clicking the X button in the top left hand corner.
- If you try to use a command that isn't yet supported, the "/" prefix in the line you typed will be removed and the rest of the line will be sent to the server. /mode and /nickserv now work because of this. This might help with future IRC developments too... i.e. when new commands become available on networks, the client doesn't have to be updated to support them.
- Bug fix: when you were disconnected from IRC by either the server or by typing /quit, the program would go into a never ending loop locking up the program. Fixed.
- Bug fix: When a server name was too big for its button, it created weird problems. Now when a server name is too long, the string is restricted to 10 characters. So hopefully multiple server support works better now.
- Bug fix: Can connect to the Galaxynet network fine now.
- Bug fix: when connecting to a server in a new tab, sometimes the previous tab you were in wouldn't change its selected state to FALSE.
- Bug fix: No longer crashes if you load WookieChat without first loading a TCP/IP stack. When you attempt to connect to a server, it loads bsdsocket.library if it hasn't been already, and if it fails it gives an error message.
- Change: Nicklist listviews are a fixed size now, so when the window is small, you can still see the status symbols to the left of peoples nicks
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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13.Jul.2004
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Various software updates
Solar Rescue
"Solar Rescue" is a small shooter created with the legendary "SEUCK" ('Shoot'em Up Construction Kit').
Direct download: SolarRescue.zip (346 KB)
BACK-IT-ALL-UP 9.8
Back-It-All-Up mirrors the content of one hard drive on another one. It supports up to eight partitions, partitions bigger than 4 GB, can use its own screen or open a window on the Workbench screen and offers a lot of features.
Direct download: backitallup98.lha (17 KB)
Worm Wars 7.82
"Worm Wars" ist a 'Tron' clone by James 'Amigan' Jacobs (screenshot). Version 7.82 introduces miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Direct download: WormWars.lha (542 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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13.Jul.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Alpe Adria: Photos and MP3 files (Update)
At the official Amiga Alpe Adria website 0xAA.org you can find further photos from this event which took place in Udine, Italia, on July 3rd (among other stuff some classic Commodore computers were shown) as well as mp3 files of the speech by Ben Hermans (Hyperion) and further presentations.
Update: (13.07.04, 14:24, snx)
At the Amiga Show Archive there is also a Video (43 MB) of Ben Hermans' speech available. (snx)
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10.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Mailing list for AteoBus owners
For the owners of an AteoBus expansion there's now a mailing list at Yahoo been set up.
This piece of hardware offered ISA slots for the Amiga 1200 and had been developed in 1997 by the French company Ateo Concepts. As slot cards available for it were among others a graphics card (Pixel 64) and an Ethernet card (AteoNet).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: BlackIRC keyfiles online available
In the near past we have received several requests regarding the availability of keyfiles for the software title BlackIRC (development ceased in 2000). To help these interested users we offer an online version of BlackIRC 1.1 for sale. The online version contains a keyfile and the last released version of BlackIRC.
We want to point out that there is no support for BlackIRC available anymore and that development ceased in 2000. This offer is therefore meant only for users who do not need any support and only want to buy a keyfile.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
PPA - Polish Amiga Portal (ANF)
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MorphOS board game: Kulce
Roman Grygier prepared a MorphOS game called Kulce. On the board there are some coloured balls which have to be put in horizontal, vertical or diagonal rows.
When there are five of the same colour in one row, the row disappears and the player gathers some points. Balls can be moved around the board - one per round. After making the move, additional three balls appear on the board. The game lasts until the whole board is covered with balls and the player has no field to move.
The game can be downloaded from PPA. The game is in Polish language but there is not many text to read. Review of the game (with screenshots) can be found here. Enjoy! (snx)
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10.Jul.2004
ANN (website)
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: datatypes akGIF and akTIFF for free
Because of the end of the LZW patent Andreas R. Kleinert now made also the datatypes akGIF and akTIFF available free of charge so that they should appear on Aminet soon. The akGIF datatype archive is available for download on the author's website, too, but not the akTIFF archive due to its size.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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BBoAH looking for musicians
The team of the BBoAH is still looking for people, especially songwriters and musicians/bands
or people who know to mix a song with the appropriate programs. It is planned to produce an AMIGA song that goes under the skin. For this they are looking for some helping hands to work on it within a non-profit-project. Idea and concept exist and are set.
People who want to spend some of their spare time for this project may write via e-mail to: Amigahardware@mariomisic.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Jul.2004
(ANF)
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Programming language: Mattathias BASIC (alpha) released
A new alpha version of "Mattathias BASIC" has been released yesterday. (cg)
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09.Jul.2004
Dude (ANF)
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Sun present three dimensional desktop
With Project Looking Glass Sun present a three dimensional desktop for their Unix operating system 'Solaris'. Detailed explanations and various screenshots can be found on the project's website.
A video showing the 3D desktop in action is available as well.
(cg)
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09.Jul.2004
PC-Welt
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US-government warns of Internet Explorer
Because of the several lacks of security in the WWW browser Internet Explorer the
"United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team" which is an organization where the US government
has also some members warns of using the browser, at least if you have not changed some
preferences. Meanwhile the free author Paul Boutin advises to use Firefox instead of
the Internet Explorer. That seems to be not very special but this advice has been posted
in Microsoft online magazine Slate....
(cs) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Jul. 2004, 14:22] [Comments: 0]
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09.Jul.2004
Golem IT News
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Golem: Mozilla-products avoid Windows lack of security
»Patch for Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird published
After on 7 July 2004 a dangerous lack of security has been found which only appears
on Windows systems at the three web applications Mozilla, Firefox and
Thunderbird now a patch is available for download. The lack of security allows an attacker
to execute program code on a different system.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Another video of AmigaOS4 with nativ Picasso96
Under the title link an
AmigaOS4 beta tester has published a video (20 MB)
which shows the speed of the new PPC-nativ version of Picasso96.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Jul. 2004, 10:48] [Comments: 0]
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09.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Video of OS4-Prerelease-Party in Landskrona
Under the title link you can
download a video of the OS4-Prerelease-Party which took place from June 18th to 20th in
Swedish Landskrona.
You can watch a little performance of AmigaOS4 with nativ Picasso96,
MUI, MooVid and Descent Freespace.
The video which has also some music is there in three different levels of quality.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 09. Jul. 2004, 07:13] [Comments: 0]
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08.Jul.2004
ChaoZer (ANF)
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MorphOS: ColdRebootPatch
ColdRebootPatch patches the ColdReboot() function, allowing you to delay or even stall a reset (screenshot).
(cg)
[News message: 08. Jul. 2004, 23:30] [Comments: 0]
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08.Jul.2004
From Sebastian Brylka found in "Die Zeit" (ANF)
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Die Zeit Web-Magazine: Cool Computer Art
Creative programmers demonstrate how they also use modest means towards a goal of great works. Amigas are mentioned relationally to the growing demo scene in this article by Aaron Koenig.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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